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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6683491 | code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| a2fe8e7 | Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 8c5ef42 | rationalize that as something else | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| bb843f5 | That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| efd958c | Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 2a780d4 | he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9106278 | Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 7f9c7b5 | I don't get it. There's nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That's crazy. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 2e8cb81 | National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security -- the fields government used to devote its efforts to -- were all slowly being starved of tax money and sold off to private industry. It | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 88f1bb4 | During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth's atmosphere. They just didn't know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won't propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 5a5c332 | Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9a5fb04 | The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed themselves within her wobbly vision. She frowned. If she was reading their efficiency modes correctly, her biononics had | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 660ff92 | we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| fda19ed | war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 2bc1fa2 | This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ae123d9 | Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| b5b8cda | Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| c0e2bf0 | his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 11a7820 | Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn't if they knew what that trip's like. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| e92a241 | Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast - actually accelerating. 'Oh my God,' she gasped. The Raiel's planet-sized DF machines were flying into new positions. 'The Raiel are getting ready for the last fight,' Ehasz said numbly. 'If they lose, that monster will consume the whole galaxy. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 8e4953f | Walk the poor bloke past the station doctor, get the certificate signed, lock him up in a padded room, and supply him with good drugs | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d1f856f | It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 114b87e | Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She's just another cause fascist, son, and that's the worst kind; they always know they're right. Anyone who dissents for whatever reason is evil and an enemy, existing only to be crushed. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 2280762 | Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| edaedbb | I knew I'd get stick | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ea9dfdd | Memories do not hurt, they only influence. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 5cc150c | Passionate intimacy between people of the same sex was common in pre--Civil War America. The lack of clear sexual categories (homo-, hetero-, bi-) made same-sex affection unself-conscious and widespread. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| 106652b | Dear Sir--I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy.... I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which lar.. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| 76614d3 | As he himself expressed it, his was the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths--the greatest in his belief in God and everyday miracles, the least in his acceptance of any church's creeds. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| b970636 | American cultural historians long thought that as male and female spheres became separated with the rise of industrialism, men practiced aggressive values in the commercial marketplace while women, confined to the home, took on qualities such as passivity, piety, purity, and submissiveness. To be sure, as Ann Douglas and Barbara Welter show, the ideal of the angelic, submissive housewife was purveyed in many novels and advice manuals. But p.. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| a4746c3 | he was mainly a romantic comrade who had a series of intense relationships with young men, most of whom went on to get married and have children. Whatever the nature of his physical relationships with them, most of the passages about same-sex love in his poems were not out of keeping with then-current theories and practices that underscored the healthiness of such love. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| 856f740 | Exclusive emphasis on either the physical or the spiritual Whitman misses his determined intermingling of the two realms. His earliest notebook poem contained the lines, "I am the poet of the body / And I am the poet of the soul," establishing at once the interpenetration and cross-fertilization between matter and spirit that is felt in virtually all his major poems. The earthly and the divine, the sensuous and the mystical, are never far f.. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| b714352 | In a day before passive spectatorship and the mass media, entertainment was supplied by actual people--not just paid performers but also ordinary people alone or in groups. Whitman's picture in "I Hear America Singing" of average people singing their "varied carols" was more than just a metaphor. It reflected a pre-mass-media culture in which Americans often entertained themselves and each other. Whitman's spouting Shakespeare atop omnibuse.. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| 9f0b304 | the inundation of the average American's consciousness with profit-driven spectacles and images would not come until after the Civil War. Before the war, Americans attended to oratory with a seriousness and eagerness that would be frittered away with the advent of "show business," a term introduced in 1850 but not widely used until the late sixties." | David S. Reynolds | ||
| dd0baad | His chosen medium--writing--had, he believed, a high potential for holding America together. America was a nation of readers, known worldwide for its high literacy rates. At midcentury, a full 90 percent of white American adults could read, as opposed to about 60 percent in England. Whitman crowed hyperbolically: "In regard to intelligence, education, knowledge, the masses of [English] people, in comparison with the masses of the U.S., are .. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| d3063b6 | In the free, easy social atmosphere of pre-Civil War America, overt displays of affection between people of the same sex were common. Women hugged, kissed, slept with, and proclaimed love for other women. Men did the same with other men. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| 2ad4519 | The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time." | Will Schwalbe | ||
| cfa0203 | What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?" It helped you remember that people aren't here for you; everyone is here for one another." | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 09e2e06 | We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. Still, one of the things I learned from Mom is this: Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying. I will never be able to read my mother's favorite books without thinking of her--and when I pass them on and recommend them, I'll know that some of what made her goes with them; that some of my mother will live on in those readers, readers w.. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 57e3ed3 | and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 8f319dd | You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 72c8fa7 | That's one of the amazing things great books like this do--they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| dd4c1c7 | The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother's side, who believed that when they dropped a present in the mail, your thank-you note should essentially bounce right back out of the mailbox at them. If it didn't, the whole family, cousins and second cousins and all, knew about your lack of gratitude (and, come to think of it, common sense, as the threat was always that .. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| c56eac5 | We've reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us refuse to say 'he or she died'? We're far more likely to say 'she passed away,' as though death were a sterile process of modest preparation, followed by shrink-wrapping, then rapid transit--where? Well, elsewhere. In short, it's the single thing we're loath to discuss in public. | Will Schwalbe |